Chapter 23: Making Tofu
Wang Cuixiang took out the laundry tub at home and soaked the beans.
When the sun was about to set, the beans were soaked and Lin Dahe returned.
"Hurry up, hurry up and work while the sky is still bright."
Lin Dahe didn't talk much, he all meant where to fight.
Seeing him grinding beans, Lin Fengqin began to think about what he needed to make tofu.
"Who in the village has brine?" Remembering to order tofu and ask for brine, Lin Fengqin asked
"Brine?"
Seeing the sluggish expressions on the faces of the family, Lin Fengqin was silent again.
"Call me when the beans are ground later." After speaking, Lin Fengqin turned around and went back to the house.
You can't make tofu without brine, Lin Fengqin bolted the door, and entered the supply and marketing cooperatives again with a silent thought in her mind.
The supply and marketing cooperatives are very large and belong to large gathering areas. She used to be a salesperson in a department store, and after thinking about the classification of salt and brine, she went straight to the grocery store.
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Finally found the salt brine, and before Lin Fengqin could take a breath, she heard Lin Lan'er's slightly excited voice.
"Are all the beans ground?"
"Hmm!"
Lin Lan'er has grown so big, and there are only a few kinds of food that she eats every day, where have I ever seen the white and slippery juice ground from this bean!
It's not too tiring to squat here, watching the stone mill grind a pot of beans into soy milk little by little.
"You go and help light the fire, and the milk will be ready for you to eat later!"
Looking at the child's happy appearance, Lin Fengqin couldn't help laughing.
Now for Lin Fengqin's words, Lin Lan'er was a hundred convinced, and went to the stove room with a jump.
Wang Cuixiang cleaned the largest pot in the house and put it on the stove. Lin Fengqin commanded Lin Dahe to strain the soy milk with a cloth again. To avoid failure, she poured a third of the pot into the pot.
With the Lin brothers here, the Lin family lacks nothing but firewood.
The stove was full of firewood, and the tongue of fire jumped high, and after a while, the soy milk in the pot was boiling.
Smelling the fragrance of beans, Lin Lan'er sucked her nose hard: "Milk!" This soy milk is so delicious! ”
Wang Cuixiang, who was originally afraid that her mother-in-law would toss food on a whim, was also relieved at this time.
Even if you smell it, you don't feel bad anymore.
"Milk, is it tofu when boiled?"
Lin Lan'er, who heard about tofu for the first time, was full of anticipation.
"Silly girl, boiling is soy milk, and tofu has to wait." Saying that, Lin Fengqin added another scoop of water to the boiling pot.
It's amazing to drink this fake boiling soy milk! It's going to cook for a while.
When the soy milk was ready, Lin Fengqin first put two bowls out and gave them to the two children waiting outside, and put the rest in the pot to cool.
After serving it on the table, Lin Lan'er dragged the silent Gu Chengyuan to guard her, and couldn't help but blow it when she smelled the fragrance of the beans.
In the stove room, when the temperature of the soy milk was almost cold, Lin Fengqin put the salt brine into the pot and stirred it.
When Wang Cuixiang, who watched the whole process on the side, found that the original white soup gradually solidified into lumps, her eyes couldn't help but widen.
"Tofu isn't that fast, let's eat some tofu brain first."
Wang Cuixiang didn't know what the tofu brain was, but she saw the bowl in Lin Fengqin's hand, the soy milk in it became smooth and tender after clumping, but it was not loose, it looked a little like the pig brain taken out of the pig that had just been killed during the Chinese New Year.
Wang Cuixiang suddenly realized: No wonder it's called tofu brain!
After serving a few people's tofu brains, Lin Fengqin poured the remaining tofu brains into the wooden basin that originally contained soybean milk, wrapped them in cloth, put a pot lid on them, and took two whetstones to press them tightly before instructing Wang Cuixiang to make some sauce mixed with tofu brains.